timestamp in radpostauth and radacct

[Ivan Kalik]

>> To include information about the NAS in a listing of the radpostauth
>> (which
>> doesn't have an entry regarding the nas
>> from which the request originated from) I am joining the tables based on
>> the
>> radacct.acctstarttime = radpostauth.date
>> which works "part" of the time. Meaning, for most of my tests it works
>> just
>> fine but I've seen logs where the timestamp
>> in both of these tables differ (for the same request ofcourse).
>>
>> I was hoping someone can clear this issue, what's a normal behavior
>> here?
>> are the timestamp supposed to be the
>> same/different and why.
>
> Different. Post-auth is timestamp of access request and acctstarttime of
> accounting request.
>
> Ivan Kalik
> Kalik Informatika ISP
>